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v FOLDING NURSERY mm No. 244,223. Patented July-12, 1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERASTUS S. FRENCH, OF WINCHENDON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO WENDELL P. CLARK AND CHARLES L. BEALS, OF-SAME PLACE.

FOLDING NURSERY-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 244,223, dated July 12, 1881.

Application filed March 5, 1881.

all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS S. FRENCH, of Winchendon, of the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new 5 and useful Improvement in Folding Chairs; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a front view, and Fig. at a vertical section, of a chair provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined by the claims hereinafter made.

In the drawings the chair proper is represented as consisting of a seat, A, and two legframes, B 0, each leg-frame being composed of two side bars and certain rungs extending from one bar to the other. The bars of inner or back 1eg-frame,B, connected by three rungs, d c f, are shown at a a as extended between and across the bars I) b of the outer or front leg-frame, each two next adjacent bars of the two frames being connected by a screw, 0, going through the outer and screwed into the inner of such bars. The bars of the outer frame, 0, besides being connected by rungs g h, arranged as shown, extend above the seat, so as to aid in forming the chair-back, which is completed by cross-bars i 6 extending from one to the other of the bars I), and united by a series of back-rests, k k k, arranged as shown.

Placed against the inner side of each back leg there may be a wheel or roller, l, which, as represented, is held in place by and turns freely on a screw or journal, m, inserted in or projecting from the leg. These wheels may extend below the feet of the back legs, in order that the chair may be sustained and moved on afloor by the rollers on tipping it so as to raise its front legs off the floor.

The seat of the chair is hinged, so as to turn upon the upper rung of the back leg-frame, B, the connections being shown at n n. When the seat is down it rests on the upper rung or rest, g, the latter being provided with two headed studs, 0 0, extending from it, as shown in Fig. 5, which is a rear view of the rung. These studs are to enter recesses or cavities a made in the seat, each of such cavities being 50 enlarged in its upper part, so as to catch on the (ModeL) head of its stud when the latter is pressed backward in the cavity. Fig. 6 is a section of the seat and rest, the plane of section being through one of the studs and the recess or cavity to engage with it.

The chair is provided with two arms, D D, which lap on the outer sides of the bars b b, and are pivoted to such bars, as shown at q. Each arm is furnished with an extension, 4', rigidly attached to and projecting down from 6 it in manner as shown, and provided with a hook, s, to take upon a headed stud, t, projecting from the seat, all being as represented. Furthermore, a foot-board, u, extends from one of the said extensions to the other and con- 6 nects them. The hooks are arranged so as to take on the studs of the seat only when such seat is in an upright position, or approximately so, in order that when the seat is turned down horizontally such hooks may so project under the studs as to prevent the arms from accidentally rising or being forced upward.

Furthermore, I usually provide the chair with a play-box or shallow trough, E, furnished with books o to hook it to eyes w inserted in the arms. This play-box may be connected with the extensions of the arms by means of two arms or bars, an, arranged as shown and pivoted to the extensions and the ends of the box. Each arm may have an arcal projection, y, to 8! enter a corresponding recess, 2, made in the play-box, such projection and recess being to aid in sustaining the box in a horizontal position when hooked to the arms. Achild while seated in the chair can rest his feet upon the 8 foot-board and have the play-box in front of him, it serving to keep him in place as well as to receive his playthings or other matters.

Fig. 7 represents a side view of the chair as folded ready for being transported orpacked away.

The application of wheels and a play-box, broadly, to a chair is not to be considered as included in my invention.

I claim, in the described folding chair, as fol- 93 lows, viz:

1.-The foot-rest combined with the arms by extensions therefrom rigidly attached thereto, and provided with hooks s to rest upon studs t projectingfrom the seat, as represented,in com.- I(

bination with the seat A, arms D, and back and leg frames B 0, adapted andarranged substantially as set forth.

2. The arms pivoted to the back and provided with rigid extensions rfor supporting the foot-rest u, and also with hooks s to rest upon studs t projecting from the seat A, in combination with the said seat pivoted to the upper rung of the back legs, and provided with looking devices to engage with headed studs projecting from the bar 9 of the back-frame, all being substantially as described.

3. Theplay-box combined with thechair, substantially as described-via, by extensions from the arms D, movable therewith, and by the bars as, pivoted upon or to such extensions and to the play-box close to its outer edge, as

ERASTUS S. FRENCH.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W. LUN'r. 

